I think the thing that makes this unappealing is the negative karma waves emanating from Ms. Tam’s horrible javascript/flash perversion of a website.

Hmmm. AJAX, LAMP, .net? No! JFP! Everything is in a giant popup that fills your whole screen, but only takes up about 800×600 of the middle of that window! Menus pop up a random distance from their source! Optional: music that starts playing when you hit the page and can’t turn off.

I think I need to spend the better part of the afternoon writing an RFC for this cutting edge UI methodology. Also, drinking heavily.

…You know, I’m not normally into the floral print jobs on notebooks, but this one actually caught my eye. I wouldn’t personally own one, but I’d buy it for one of my Ex’s if they actually deserved it. A really nice job!

The problem with fancy laptop lids is that you know that you’re going to want to replace the laptop itself in five years or so. (My iceBook is seven years old, but that’s mostly because I haven’t been able to afford to replace it, plus I don’t use it for work.) I’d rather go for a laser-etched design that can be transferred to another laptop, although even then you’d need one that would fit on laptops with different screen ratios.